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Vol. 44, No. 47
Lincoln 8, Nebraska
Wednesday, January 17, 1945
War Show
Crew Heads
Meet Jan. 18
Cast members and crew chair
men for the 1945 War Show,
"Till Johnny Comes Marching
Home," will meet at 7 Thursday
evening In room 313 of the Union
to begin actual production work
for the show, Ghita Hill, War
Council " president, announced
Tuesday.
The script has been completed
and practices are scheduled to be
gin the week following finals.
Miss Hill also stated that all mem
bers of the cast would be notified
before the meeting Thursday
evening and that costume meas
urements would be taken at that
time.
The only vacancy yet to be
filled is the position of stage
manager which will be announced
later this week. The remainder
of the directors and crew chair
men follows:
Student director, Lucy Ann
Hapeman.
Faculty director, W. S. Mor
gan. Business manager, Mary
Louise Goodwin, assistant
Jackie Gordon.
Script chairman, Harold An
dersen. Properties, Fred Teller, as
sistant Irwin Chesen.
Make up, Dorothea Duxbury.
Costumes, Min Beede, assis
tant Donna Todd.
Technician, Art Beindorff.
Publicity, Betty Huston.
Dance directors, Jo Kinsey
and Billie Trombla.
Vocal chorus, Peg Shelly.
Supervision of music, Dopald
Glattly.
Students interested in working
on the War Show crews may sign
the lists posted in the War Coun
cil office in the basement of the
Union any time this week.
Home Ec club will make the
customes.
Nelda Oltman
Wins Tri Dclt
Scholarship
Delta Delta Delta sorority, of
fering scholarships to university
coeds in connection with the war
effort and postwar work, last
week presented a scholarship to
Nelda Oltman, teachers college
senior.
The scholarships, as stated by
the national committee of Delta
Delta Delta, provide a gift of
money not to exceed $200 to be
given to a junior or senior in any
university or college, fahe must
be working toward a degree in a
field of study concerned with the
war effort or postwar work. Her
use for the scholarship must also
be caused by some upset due to
financial need in connection with
the war.
The scholarships are made up
of funds raised by each chapter,
to which the national committee
contributes a certain amount
Groups Try-out
For Coed Follies
On February 6-7
Try-outs for Coed Follies will
be held on February 6 and 7,
Midge Holtzscherer, chairman of
the follies committee, has an
nounced.
The try-outs have been sched
uled early so that activities bit ill
s fit in more easily. Follies ehair
' men should jreturn their rough
drafts and candidates in to Miss
Johnston at Ellen Smith hall by
E:00 p. m., January 31.
UN Lacks $145
Toward Goal
In War Stamps
With just today to go, UN stu
dents are still $145 short of the
$1,950 goal set for war stamp
sales for this semester. Tassel
salesmen have sold approximate
ly $1,805 worth of stamps toward
the goal, which is the purchase of
an ambulance for field service
units.
In order to make the ambul
ance a reality, the remaining $145
worth of war stamps must be
purchased today from the stamp
booths in the Union, Andrews,
Sosh, and at ag, according to Mary
Lou Weaver, stamp sales chair
man.
Ag YW Elects
Opper To Head
Lois Opper was elected presi
dent of the ag YWCA for the
next year after two scheduled
days of voting on ag campus. Her
right hand man for the coming
year will be Geraldine uowen.
Sue Fishwood will take over
the duties of secretary-treasurer
and Julia Crom is the new dis
trict representative.
Election on ag campus took
place in the home economics
building Monday and Tuesday,
with polls open from 8:30 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
Annual Dramatic
Writing Contests
Open to Students
Four contests in dramatic writ
ing are being sponsored by the
Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford
university in the tenth annual
competitions of the organization
which are open to all persons
who write.
The Stevens Award of $100 is
offered for serious plays of full
length in either prose or verse
and the Etherege award of $100
will go to the writer of the best
full-length comedy. Brief plays
of one act or in short unified
scenes may compete for the Alden
award of $50. The Gray award
of $25 is offered for dramatic
criticism in lucid, vigorous style.
Plays Staged In 1945.
The most produceable of the
plays among these competitions
will be staged in the summer of
1945 during the Dramatists' as
sembly. Final date of this season's com
petitions is March 25, 1945. Writ
ers should send for registration
forms and information to Drama
tists' Alliance, Box 200 -Z, Stan
ford university, Calif.
Conscientious Reporter on Assignment Finds
Abbott Collection of Paintings Unsurpassed
BY SHIRLEY JENKINS.
After being given an assign
ment to go to Morrill hall and
see Professor Dwight Kirsch,
chairman of the art department,
I, being the conscientious reporter
that I am, immediately dropped
everything and headed for the
hall. Since Professor Kirsch was
busy, I stopped in Gallery B,
second floor,- to see the Abbott
Collection of war paintings, un
surpassed in this campus.
As my eyes travelled around
the walls, I stopped short. The
action, color and drama shown in
those paintings was so striking
that it took me a few seconds to
take it all in.
Many Artists Exhibit.
On the south and east walls
are hung the oil paintings-of
Thomas Benton and Georees
Schreiber of 'The Silent Service."
Th inorth' find fwest walls have
Kert Eby's ''Marines at War,"
pencil sketches " the life of the
marines on Tarawa.
Mattoon
Gerry McKinsey
Home Ec Club
Delegates Elect
UN Coed Head
Edith Pumphrey, junior from
ag, has been selected by the dele
gates of the home ec clubs of
four states to act as chairman of
the planning committee for a pro
vince worship to be held in
February.
Miss Pumphrey will leave for
Kansas City Friday night to meet
with the planning committee and
organize the coming worship,
which will be attended by dele
gates from Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma and Nebraska. The
meeting will be held on Saturday.
The university home ec club at
ag chose Miss Pumphrey to repre
sent the U N chapter as a dele
gate and she was notified of her
selection as chairman of the
planning committee January 15.
The voting was carried on by
mail.
Student-Faculty
Council Chooses
Coed Members
Newly elected class representa
tives to the ag college student-
faculty council are Pat Gillespie
and Helen Wulf for the sopho
mores, and Virginia Babbitt and
Gerry Gowen for the juniors.
Marolyn Hartsook, sophomore,
and Monica Alberty, junior, were
re-elected and will remain on the
council.
The council works to co-ordinate
and better faculty-student re
lations on ag campus.
Midge Holtzscherer, president,
announced that senior members
will hold over until May and
freshmen do not elect their rep
resentatives until November. Of
ficers for the council will be
elected in the first meeting to be
held in February.
Polls were open Monday and
Tuesday in the home ec building
for all ag sophomore and junior
coeds.
Student Council
Meets Today
Student Council will hold a
regular meeting: Wednesday at
5 p. m. in room 315 of the
Union. Council president
Harold Andersen asks every
member to attend.
Benton, of Missouri, and
Schreiber, from Brussels, lived
abroad the U. S. S. Dorado, a
submarine operating in the south
Pacific. Since these paintings
were completed, the Dorado has
been lost in action with all of
its crew. The artists ate, slept
and laughed with the submariners.
They worked with the men and
stood watches with the officers.
Every phase of life aboard a sub
has been transferred to canvas in
fall detail.
After looking at each picture,
I tried to decide which was the
most outstanding. Action and
tension are so vividly presented
in each of these oils that choos
ing one of the 25 paintings was
impossible.
Eye-Catching: Color.
"Up Periscope" and "Eighty
Feet Below" by Schreiber, both
with the red lighting of the in
terior of a sub predominating,
are eye-catching with their color.
"Tbi Kill," with an enemy ship
Heads
Nebraskan
Staff Filings
Due Jan. 20
All applications for positions on
the staff of The Nebraskan or as
assistant business manager for
the Cornhusker must be turned in
to the journalism office in U hall
by 9 Saturday morning, Prof. For
rest Blood, publications board
chairman, announced. Applicants
must be present for interviews
when the board meets.
The board will meet at 9 Sat
urday morning in the journalism
office in U hall. To be eligible for
positions, students must be carry
ing 12 hours in good standing.
Applications may be obtained in
the journalism office.
Vacant Positions.
Positions open are: Editor, two
managing editors, four news edi
tors, society editor, sports editor,
business manager and two as
sistant business managers for the
Nebraskan and one assistant busi
ness manager for the CornhusRer
Members of the publications
board are: Professors Blood,
David Fellman and H. E. Brad
ford, John K. Selleck, Varro Ty
ler, Mary Ralston and Al Red
dish.
Sigma Xi Hears
Dr. Donald Pace
At Morrill Hall
Dr. Donald M. Pace, associate
professor of physiology, spoke
Tuesday evening on "The Produc
tion of Growth-Inhibiting Sub
stances by Living Cells," to an
open meeting of Sigma Xi in the
Morrill hall auditorium.
Dr. Pace discussed in a general
way cellular problems and meth
ods of investigation pertaining to
them. Experimental results were
presented which supported the
contention that growth of cells is
partially controlled by means of
a chemical substance, or sub
stances produced by the cells
themselves.
National headquarters of the
Society of Sigma Xi granted
Dr. Pace $250 last spring to con
tinue research work on this sub
ject in which he has been par
ticularly interested for several
years.
sinking in flames as the captain
of the sub watches thru bino
culars; "Going Home;" "Stand by
to Fire;" and "Surface," to me
dominate this part of the exhi
bit of the Abbott collection.
"Marines at War," by Kerr
Eby, next took my attention. Eby
lived with the marines and shared
their dangerous life on Tarawa.
With rapid on-the-spot sketches,
he captured the feeling of the
marines and their war. The in
tensity and spirit of the men, the
heat, the savagery, the terror, an 1
the exhaustion of battle are ah
caught in these 20 sketches.
Shock Complacent Americans.
"Scant Shelter," showing ex
hausted men clinging together
under a pier, with some marines
too tired to even hang on, "Bul
lets and Barbed Wire," and
"March Macabre" should shock
the complacent American intc
realizing what - war really is.
Every one of these sketches is
(See ART EXHIBIT, page 4.)
City YWCA;
Vice Prexy
With a total of 366 votes cast,
Mary Ann Mattoon became presi
dent of the city campus YWCA
for the coming year as a result
of yesterday's election. Vice pres
ident is Gerry McKinsey.
Other officers are Shirley Hinds,
district representative; Margaret
Neumann, secretary, and Jacquel
ine Eagleton, treasurer.
The newly elected president
was district representative of the
YW, is a member of the Religious
Welfare Council, and co-chairman
f rom Lincoln journal
MARY ANN MATTOON.
Assumes duties as newly
elected president of city campus
Y. W. C. A.
of the Nebraska district of the
YWCA. She also attended the
Estes conference in Colorado last
summer.
Gerry McKinsey is staff leader
of the Inter-American affairs
YW group and originator of the
peace conference idea, of which
she is vice chairman of the execu
tive committee.
Shirley Hinds' activities include
(See ELECTION, page 3.)
Lt. R. J. Fast
Receives Army
Se rvice Medal
Second Lt. Robert J. Fast has
been awarded the army bronze
star medal for "heroic service in
connection with military oper
ations against an enemy of the
United States in France.
Leiutenant Fast graduated from
bizad college in 1943. He was
president of his senior class and
a member of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon.
The story behind the award is
told in the army citation as fol
lows: "When the platoon commanded
by Lieutenant Fast was sub
jected to intense enemy fire as
it reached a stream during an at
tack in France, he immediately
began a search for materials
needed to construct a bridge for
a hasty crossing without thought
for his personal safety. He then
personally supervised and helped
in the building of the bridge so
that his men succeeded in cross
ing the stream. While assisting
in the placement of the planks
during the construction, Lieuten
ant Fast was swept under water
but managed to reach the op
posite bank and led his platoon
in successful assaults on enemy
strongholds. Lieutenant Fast's re
sourceful leadership reflects cre
dit upon his character as an of
ficer." YW Group Hears
Rev. Ray Kearns
Using as his topic "Today and
Tomorrow in Protestantism," Ray
Kearns, student pastor, will ad
dress the comparative religions
group of the Y.W.C.A. today at 5
p. m. in Ellen Smith.
Rev. Kearns is leaving the uni
versity in two weeks to become
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church at Manhattan, Kas. The
meeting is open to the public.
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